Following the war and Jones's return to the court, President Harry S. Truman nominated him to be Chief Justice of the Court of Claims in 1947.
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He moved to Amarillo, Texas to practice law and after an energetic campaign was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to the 65th United States Congress, handily defeating a 20 year incumbent, John H. Stephens.
John Marvin Jones (1882–1976), United States congressman, aka Marvin Jones and J. Marvin Jones
John Marvin Jones, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1916–40 and later Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims, was born in Valley View.
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